Erect no gravestone .... let the Rose every year bloom for his sake ! Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus, I

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JOSEPH PAUL ERNEST BURKEService Number: R/206904 Age: 20 Force: Air Force Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force Son of William and Dorine Burke, of West Bathurst, Gloucester Co., New Brunswick. Canada.

WILLIAM JOSEPH ALLISONService Number: J/20861 Age: 28 Force: Air Force Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force Son of William Earle Allison and Mary Ruth Allison, of Montreal, Province of Quebec. Canada.

JULES ROBERT RENE VILLENEUVEService Number: R/199834 Age: 22 Force: Air Force Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force Son of Jean B. Villeneuve and Clara Villeneuve, of Verdun, Province of Quebec. Canada.

CHARLES HAMELService Number: J/92169 Age: 21 Force: Air Force Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force Son of Dr. Paul Hamel, and of Bertha Ellen Hamel, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.

With Remembrance Day coming up, there is an excellent chance of the television stations, as well as the major newspapers in Canada posting this picture with your story.Here a some of the national newspapers.

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I'm still working on this, but I don't think that pic is Of our crew - it is 408 SQDN who were based at either Leeming or Linton on Ouze. I'm not sure thou what our Sqdn was - though they were based at Wellesbourne. Denn. Hamel was the pilot

What a fantastic effort you guys are putting into finding out this mystery, It makes me feel good as I have relative in simaler situation 24 year old whose plane came down on a training exercise in Canada, the people there to this day hold services for those boys who lost their lives, Keep going will look forward to reading rest of replies.

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